BITTEN BY SNAKE
N.Z. Woman In Formosa Dies (N.Z. Press Assn,—Copyright) TAIPEI, July 7. Mrs Richard Gillingham, wife of a New Zealand farming expert, was bitten fatally by a poisonous snake on Friday night in South Formosa.
The police said Mrs Gillingham stepped on the snake while* she was walking across a grass track with her husband after attending an American Independence Day party at a United States military service club at Oluanpi, at the southernmost tip of Formosa.
Mr Gillingham is a specialist of the United Nations Development Programme, assigned to an experimental station at Hengchung, near Oluanpi, to help the Formosa Agricultural and Forestry Department develop its livestock project. The couple came to Formosa from Wellington in January, 1968. Mr Gillingham’s tour of duty will end at the end of this year.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32034, 8 July 1969, Page 3
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